#wait i forgot to mention the hc where one of my wifes guys also is one of my couples' third now

[leonbastralle]

it rly is such a good time to date someone w a similarly extensive collection of ocs like it rly is just thinking of which of our respective characters should fuck and then making it happen

[shivstar]

@nyxunderwood Hey! thanks for the reply!!!!

I love James's parent in this fic, i forgot to tell you. They are my favourite. I fell in love with Effie just from the plot!!!!!

I agree with you bringing light on Sirius's emotionally abusive life under his parent's roof. Like fandom just brushes this entire aspect of the personality even the ones who go by canon characterisation. As if it is something that makes him fun! but no. A person running away from his parents at 16 is in itself reflective of a major trauma...

Understandable as to how Sirius must be feeling reluctant to begin a romantic relationship with James becasue that is the person all his other relations are connected to.

This is a better plot point that Sirius despite getting the feels that maybe James is also into him but he doesnt act on that instincts becasue he is scared. Rather than him pinning for years whereas James goes on to live a comparatively happier life with Lily.

This is why i have been rooting for Sirius's ex to be the good guy despite it not looking like it. I want him to make atleast one freind who has nothing to do with James. Like every couple should have individual friend so that they can rant to them. And i like for SIrius to be able to develop friendship beyond James and marauders as an adult.

Also it will be fun to see James always on his toe in that guys presence (i am forgetting his name, was it nate?) His boyfriend/ husband's ex is now friends with Sirius. It must be difficult but he swallows it down. I have read many prongsfoot fics where James and Lily remain friends and your fic also looks like it will go that way. And i as a Sirius truthee kinda dislike James having close relations with his ex who was good enough that James had to take the long route to decide Sirius is the one and not lily. So, this is just my wishful thinking!!!

About Remus- well fanon has spoiled this character for me. You will know with a quick swipe of my feed. He is too good to be true. All great, can do no good. But i was already so uncomfortable with canon Remus lupin who is ready to blame every thing going wrong in his life at his condition. It defines his backsotry but he gave it the power to shape him. I know that it is a big issue but it is Remus's vision that makes it a hurdle. I can list atleast 5 ways he can live a decent enough life, which may involve a bit of using magic on muggles, but he is no saint. From roaming in forbidden forest with his freinds to being part of a vigilantte group, he is not the most legally idol citizen.

But to me he always reads as this cry baby type of adult who has a typically sad outlook to life. And having frinds and loved must help but the self acceptance is so much lacking in him that i would never want to be friends with a person like him if he were a real life person.

In fact i HC that with his unwillingness to grow up he is the one who would have been left behind in friend group had war not happen. I am sure that SIrius, James and Peter all three are capable of self growth but Remus has a speciality in hindering his own efforts towards self imrovement.

Like all bad things happen to him because others are at fault. All good things happen because others pity him. that kind of morose outlook to life.

Nonetheless i am not Remus's biggest fan and i am really pissed with almost all of his characterisation But that is a issue i have to ignore to read hp fictions becasue he is everywhere. In marauders era fics. In golden trio fics. If not him than there is a mention of his greatness. But the treatment of his towards his wife, son and Harry made me not like him even the first time i read the books and watched the movie.

SOrry for the rant. I will be waiting for the next chapter!

Read your latest prongsfoot fic. Loved the premise and characterisation.

The pinning from Sirius's side and confusion from James. Just eating it all up...

Question - i understand that portraying Sirius as a runaway 16 year old comes with it a lot of complexities. Having his entire life scrambled and upturned and I believe that plays a huge role in Sirius placing James on a pedestal of sorts. Like in prongsfoot, I feel there is a power imbalance. With James always having upper hand of sorts. Because he has stable relationship with his parents. Even after his breakup with Lily, they are usually shown to be good friends. Remus and Peter are primarily james's friend. Sirius on the other hand is the guy who's entire existence can be summed up in terms of James Potter. He has no one else who is purely on his side. His supporter. Everyone who is his is also somehow related to James too. What are your thoughts of the power dynamic between them.

Also, i agree the insecurities such kind of situation can bring into a person's mind. But i was a bit turned off by Sirius praising Remus's intelligence and claiming that moony is the smartest of all. Like animagus at 16, flying motor bike, magic mirrors, sane even after azkaban. Sirius is magically intelligent. He is emotionally intelligent too because in swm James is the stupid one, Sirius has to tell him that lily thinks he is conceited. So the question is are these his insecurities speaking or is this another one of Remus appreciation at work? . Like I just hate it when Sirius is the stupid one. I see that sort of characterisation in wolfstar Or jegulus side of fandom when Moony can do no bad and is better than everyone. So just wanted to know...

Thanks so much for reading and great question! In Object Permanence, I’m very focused on the impact that an abusive childhood has had on Sirius. You’ve absolutely hit the nail on the head (at least from my perspective) about the fact Sirius has a lot more to lose than James by exploring a romantic relationship. This is something that will come up in the story so I’ll avoid giving spoilers here.

The comment Sirius made about Remus was definitely a a joke about the rash and silly actions James and Sirius got into as classic shot-stirrers. My interpretation of Sirius (and James) is that they were those smart kids who just got it without having to put excessive effort in. That’s why I think it’s feasible they smashed the Auror course when they really put the effort in.

Although Remus is more a supporting character in the story I do find it quite poignant that he faces so many limitations on his potential because of circumstances beyond his control. But I think of him more as sensible and hard working rather than a natural. There will be an interesting (I hope) interaction between Remus and Sirius about Remus’ situation - will be interested to hear your thoughts.

Reflecting on your question about Sirius more deeply though, I think the nice comment about Remus also felt like an in character comment because Sirius is being self-deprecating. I can’t say too much without spoiling future storylines but let’s just say James is going to be going the extra mile to build up that confidence…

Thanks again for the question and for reading. Hope you enjoy the next chapter.

[the-chaotic-neutral-pansexual]

Planned Works/Ideas for October

Hello everyone, as I mentioned previously I’ve been working on some stuff. I also have been feeling very inspired as of late and will be writing some more. I wanted to get this October started off right so here is a list of some things that will be coming your way hopefully sooner than later. I don't feel comfortable giving exact dates because as I've mentioned before certain factors can cause my writing schedule to be sporadic (also why I will not be participating in kinktober) Since some ideas are more developed than others his list will be separated into three categories:

Full ideas

People/characters who will be getting works

Ideas/tropes that I want to write about

Let's Begin!

First up here are the fully developed ideas that are in progress.

Yoon Hyunsuk (Cix)

Nerd!Hyunsuk x Popular!reader (college au)

The tall, shy, handsome, boy who sits behind you in every class you share has a secret. Like many other people on campus, he was hopelessly in love with you. It began three years ago, freshman year, and every day it only got stronger. Over the years this has led him to do some… questionable things he's not a bad guy by any means he's just an awkward college boy in love. At first, it was innocent just sitting behind you in classes that you shared. He hoped that this would give him some time to gain some confidence to talk to you while still remaining close to you. He really didn’t mean to begin eavesdropping on your conversations or reading your texts over your shoulder, he just wanted to learn more about you before he approached you. But as time went on the worse he got from smelling your hair to following you around campus to lurking your socials to finally finding your dorm room. He told himself that he was just trying to return a jacket you left in class so he racked his brain for all of the information he “gathered” and remembered your room number. It was just supposed to be a quick drop off of the jacket he played out the scenario in his head a thousand times. knock on the door, tell you he picked it up when you forgot it, give it to you, and leave. But, when he knocked on the door it opened slightly you weren’t there but you left it cracked indicating that you would be back soon. The change in circumstances caused him to panic and so he decided to just go in and drop it on your bed as opposed to waiting at your door for you. As soon as he fully entered the room the door closed behind him and after folding your jacket placing it on your bed he goes to leave. Turns out you left your door cracked for a reason, he twists the knob and pulls with all his might but he can’t get it opened. The door jammed and he’s stuck in your room. Before he even gets the chance to panic he hears you right outside the door.

Request

Klaus Mikaelson (TVD/The Originals)

Cursed!KlausxSoulmate!Reader

Klaus kills a woman. Unbeknownst to him, this woman was the soulmate of a powerful witch. In revenge the witch curses him vowing that the day Klaus finds his soulmate they will be made immortal but their soul would be removed leaving an eternal one-sided soulmate connection where Klaus is completely connected to them ( can only love and desire them, unable to hurt or kill them, able to see their thoughts and feel their emotions/pain.etc) but they have no connection to him. The witch finally takes the only reverse to the spell to the grave with him and his wife leaving nobody else to break the spell. The story will center around an interesting toxic yet slightly romantic relationship between Klaus and the reader where over years they are continuously on and off again. Klaus does everything to get the reader to love and stay with him and the reader uses this to their advantage. When they’re together its great but when they’re apart things never go well. In the end, the reader can always leave him but he can never leave them so he takes any measure to keep them by his side.

Choi Soobin (TXT)

Sub!SoobinxDom catgirl!reader

The Cat Owns You Part 2

After returning home from the café Soobin you’re finally able to transform. Now being human you keep up a nice façade for the evening eating dinner and watching television peacefully. Having you around for these few hours has him believing he made the right decision after a while he took you to your room before retiring to his own for the night. He drifts off to sleep happily thinking that he found a simple way to fix his loneliness issue a cute catgirl who resides in the room beside his. Nothing could have prepared him for what would happen a few hours later. Waking up to feel his hands and legs in an uncomfortable position he tries to adjust himself but he can’t, opening his eyes to look he realizes that he’s tied to the 4 sides of his bedpost. Before he can question what’s happening he sees you making your way toward him with the collar he purchased earlier in your hands. You notice that he’s awake but continue on fastening the collar around his throat before positioning yourself to sit on him, straddling his spread body “(Y/N) what’s going on” he asks trying to sound stern but it comes out as more of a whisper as the reality of his situation really begins to set in affecting his body in a way he didn’t expect. “Shhh don’t worry I’ll take care of you” you whisper in his ear sending a shiver through his body. Every second that passes he can feel his resolve fading he knows that he wants whatever is about to happen and soon he won’t be able to say no you know this too. He quickly yet unconvincingly rushes out “ no you can’t do this” causing you to chuckle “ Yes I can, I can do whatever I want you signed the papers” before he can ask what you mean you continue “I own you”

Up next here are some muses that I will be writing about once I find the perfect ideas for them:

Garou (Genshin Impact)

Nejire Kamado (My Hero Academia)

Mina Ashido (My Hero Academia)

Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia)

Kazutora Hanemiya (Tokyo Revengers)

Choi Beomgyu (TXT)

Choi Chanhee (The Boyz)

Jeong Jaehyun (NCT)

Park Seonghwa (Ateez)

Wonho (Soloist)

Sunmi (soloist)

Sana (twice)

Beelzebub (Obey Me)

Loki Laufeyson (MCU)

Buckey Barnes (MCU)

Hela Odinson(MCU)

Wanda Maximoff (MCU)

And finally here are some ideas for works (I’m thinking of making a proper prompt list but for now you can request any of these ideas with a muse from above and I will try to fulfill it. Just make sure to specify what type of story you want (fluff, smut, angst, general hcs, drabbles, etc):

Reader is an evil sorcerer and the muse is their loyal familiar

Reader is a succubus and muse is a charge that keeps summoning them

Reader is like Hades and muse is like Persephone

Female Knight reader saves prince muse

Criminal reader goes yandere for normal muse

Opposites attract the big, scary, cold reader and soft cute muse

Muse who is a twitch streamer by day and a camgirl/boy by night

Reader is a Sugar mommy and muse is one of their many sugar babies it starts off fine but then muse falls in love and wants to be readers only one

Dom reader x fem switch muse x sub male muse

Ruler reader x harem

Reader is mean to everyone but muse

Smart tsundere reader dating clingy affectionate himbo/bimbo muse

Fem Joker type reader x male Harley type muse

Reader is an engineer who finds robot muse and fixes them

Vampire queen reader and yandere muse servant who wants to be readers walking blood bag

Hero reader saves muse from a yandere and muse becomes yandere

Demon reader x angel muse

A muse who keeps trying to kill a reader that they don’t know is invulnerable reader knows muse is trying to kill them but doesn’t stop them because they think it’s cute.

[sunmaylight]

TGCF Book 3 Reaction pt.4 - Wind & Water Master Arc: The Water Master Side & Ghost City pt. 3, Party City in the Crimson Light

Here we are. At the second (?) half of the Wind and Water Master Arc. I don’t know about the rest of the community, but I now consider that the Wind and Water Master Arc to be split on which of the two Elemental Masters are focused. With Wind Masters’s arc first and Water Master’s arc second.

I am excited cause the Water Master side had a going in it. Especially since the Black Water Sinking Ship - He is going to be introduced. I wonder how his lair will be compared to Hua Cheng’s. Can’t wait

Obviously, what I forgot to mention earlier. If you haven’t figured it out already,

SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK

Ch 119: Xie Lian says Four Supremes, but someone corrects him that it’s the Four Calamities.

- Me: lol. He forgot Qi Rong is part of them.

Famous saying in the Underworld: “Crimson Rules the Land; Black Masters the Waters.”

- Me: Wow. What a quote from the book, got to note that down.

Pei Ming: Demon Xuan.

- Me: ...wait. Scholar He. Demon Xuan....SQX has He and Xuan as part of his birth name..... MF!

How to ride a Flying Shovel 101 with Ming Yi and Shi Qingxuan

1) Have the owner step on the handle

2) Have the guest stand on the spade of the shovel

3) Fly

Hua Cheng soaking in Xie Lian protecting him like a cat

- Me: That is one smug cat.

Fangxin is an old blade and has to fly for a long time

- Me: Oh, so it’s grand-sword Fangxin instead of Uncle Fangxin

Hua Cheng is standing on water while holding Xie Lian

- Hehe. Christianity reference could happen. Hua Cheng = J**us

The two get swept up by the waves and land on shore. Xie Lian sees Hua Cheng isn’t breathing. Xie Lian gives him CPR

- Me: Wait, do Ghost need to breath?

Hua Cheng opens his eyes

- Me: Oh! MF

Ch 120: Coffin Boat building

- Me: The ‘wilderness survival episode’

Xie Lian telling Hua Cheng that to him, “...what matters is you, not the state of you.”

- Me: *wipes tear away from eye* I-I’m not crying. Are you crying?

Riding the waves in a closed coffin that is designed to house only one person.

- Me: Well, I can think of a lot of ways where this can go wrong and horny.

The entire coffin scene until they break out to see who/what is whacking their ‘boat’. The are greeted to the sight of Pei Ming and Shi Wudu staring at them

- Me: Well, this is like what, the second time Pei Ming caught Hua Cheng and Xie Lian in a romantic situation?

Pei Ming taking Demon Xuan’s minions and forming them into a basketball

- Me: Hi, I need visual of this entire scene please

Action scene! The invisible water demons.

- Me: oh yay! I was wondering when that would happen. 

- Also me: You know, I would love to see a book of spells and hypological structures of how ghost biology is

Lake mirror shows another realm. SQX is trapped in a prison with others. Everyone, except Pei Ming jumps into the Mirror Lake

- Me: Well, what reference can I put for that? Through the Looking Glass? Wonderland? Movie thing?

Xie Lian asks Hua Cheng for Spiritual Power and has to emphasize on the ‘little’

The other side of the mirror lake is a place where spiritual powers fail. Xie Lian is the only fighter of the group now...besides Hua Cheng if  he decides to do something

- Me: Xie Lian, I hope you become a great MVP

Ch 122-123: Revealed that the group has ended up at the Nether Water Manor. They go to the manor and have a jump scare from a skeleton that literally jumps at one of them at a certain phrase said.

- Me: Oh, yeah. I think things are being pieced together in my head now...not a pretty picture.

They find a Distance-Shortening array that can only teleport one person at a time. Ming Yi is the only one who can activate it among the group.

- Me: Well, isn’t that the perfect timing to separate the group.

Xie Lian and Hua Cheng end up at the Puqi Shrine with the rest of the group is unknown. Xie Lian understands who the Reverend/Demon Xuan is. 

- Me: Called it

Xie Lian learns that Hua Cheng and Demon Xuan had some agreement in the past that makes the two unable to sabotage if it’s something important to the other.

Ha Cheng seeing Xie Lian do a familar hand seal: “...gege?”

- Me: *sob* I can hear so much emotions from Hua Cheng when he said that as the Ghost King realizes what Xie Lian is going to do. Confusion, realization, fear, concern, and so much more

Xie Lian is now with SQX in the horror game: Survive on Nether Manor Island. It is filled with running, hiding your intentions from your ‘best friend’ and trying to find your brother. Try your best to survive, or else your fate will be decided by Black Water.

- Me: Well, that is a horror show that I didn’t put much notes in. Must be because of how absorbed I was in the story at that time.

Xie Lian monologuing about his discoveries of everything so far. How he connects the dots and realizations to everything about Ming Yi’s identity

"Ming Yi” utterly destroys Water Master’s fan attack with a flick of the wrist and takes the fan away from him.

“Ming Yi” dissolves into Demon Xuan like water flowing down paint to reveal the actual picture underneath. 

- Me: I need visuals so bad.

He Xuan drags SQX and SWD to some dungeon like place. He Xuan gets his own brand of ‘justice’.

- Me: No comment. Read this for yourself

The horror of the climax of the Wind & Water Master arc ends with Xie Lian ejected from SQX’s body at the most crucial moment. He awakens to the sight of Hua Cheng sucking the spiritual energy out of his body to cancel the spell. Hua Cheng is kissing Xie Lian

- Me: Wow. Efficient. Don’t know how to react to seeing this romantic scene after something horrific though

Ch 125: Qi Rong ruins the moment

- Qi Rong, I would start running now.

The aftermath of the Wind & Water Master Arc ends with them picking up Pei Ming. Also learn a new side to He Xuan, he is a lonely man whose thirst for revenge fed him for so many years. 

“No one can know what he’s thinking.”

- Me: Now I feel sad for He Xuan. Even moreso now then before.

It is revealed that the fisherman were dragged into the sea during the Water Master’s Heavenly Trial by a third party.

- We have a possible thi- fourth party. Previous three: XL & HC, Heaven, He Xuan

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Ch 126: Xie Lian and Hua Cheng try to learn who is this other mysterious party is for dragging Xie Lian to Banyue pass, and now this.

- Me: Concern. Who is dragging Xie Lian around? Why are they dragging him around?

After the funeral for Water Master, Qi Rong is behaving funny. Hua Cheng barges in and takes the two away to Ghost City.

- Me: Ghost City pt. 3, Party City in the Crimson Light? ((Oh, that should be the other header))

The group is at Ghost City, without someone.

- Me: Wait! They forgot Lang Ying ((MY SON!))

 Hua Cheng and Xie Lian are by themselves. Hua Cheng practices calligraphy again at Xie Lian’s encouragement. 

Ch 127: Ghost are going out of control, Qi Rong escapes, Hua Cheng is acting clingy to Xie Lian. In the background as Qi Rong escapes, it appears that he has a routine with Ghost City 

- Me: lol. Even in this pain, they have a routine that is uninterrupted. 

Qiandeng Temple is sealed shut. Hua Cheng and Xie Lian are trapped. THAT ENTIRE SCENE OF XIE LIAN CALMING AN ALMOST BERSERK HUA CHENG

- Me: Wow. What a night that was for Xie Lian and Hua Cheng.

Next day, Hua Cheng doesn’t remember and explains that it was a sign of Mount Tonglu opening.

- Me: Man, Hua Cheng, you missed out big time.

Ghost have escaped from imprisonment in Heaven. Xie Lian is tasked to work with Qi Ying.

- Me: Qi Ying? That one guy that threw a bed at Pei Ming?

Xie Lian goes back to Puqi Shrine all mope. Lang Ying is around, though. He tries to help Xie Lian, but during lunch(?) Xie Lian burnt the food. He is about to throw it away, but Lang Ying eats it instead.

- LANG YING! Ahhh, no! Please be alright soon. Please don’t get food poisoning.

Xie Lian is laying down in bed thinking of Hua Cheng.

- Me: Xie Lian missing Hua Cheng like a wife missing her husband on a business trip

Quan Yizhen is on the floor choking on Xie Lian’s cooking. He is revealed to be the one giving Xie Lian the gold bars

- Me: Xie Lian. What kind of ally did you make? QYZ seems like an instinctive guy.

Lang Ying speaking up and being bolder.

- Me: Did Hua Cheng do something to Lang Ying to make him grow more of a backbone?

Now that QYZ is here, Xie Lian debriefs him on the new mission. Find the Brocade Immortal Robe

Ch 128 author (MXTX) notes: No one can eat Xie Lian’s cooking besides Hua Cheng.

- Me: Wow. Way to give a spoiler. But okay, that makes sense.

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Ahh, the Mount Tonglu arc is coming soon. First there has to be the chaos that the opening of Mount Tonglu brought.

[libgds]

As some of you may remember, one of my greatest frustrations and roots of my struggles in California was the tow dolly. A tow dolly is a two wheeled trailer for pulling a car with front wheel drive. It made everything harder and led to the infamous night where I had the cops called on me for a domestic dispute with myself  (I Think I Just Became an Urban Legend) and then the tire blow out a couple of days later (I Have a Nemesis) , not to mention the lights not working delaying my trip home (This Is Beyond Ridiculous) and making to trip anxiety-ridden as they would go out for long periods only when  I was driving (Zen and the Art of RV Maintenance). Granted, the  light thing was Old Unreliable’s fault, but still.

While I have still have not made any definitive decisions about how long Old Unreliable will remain in my life, when I got back to Indiana, I immediately declared that the tow dolly had to go! I did not immediately list it back in October because I had bigger fish to fry like getting a job. Then it was winter and that job went until 6 or 7pm each night a, so I knew that would make arranging a sale difficult. The Spring came with a new job, and I was focused on learning that. Summer came and since the first job had paid so badly and the second teaching job had so little time left before summer, I had to get a summer job to get me through.

Finally, it was August and my regular teaching job was back in session. Oddly, having fewer money worries finally freed me up to wrestle the tow dolly problem. (Yes, I know selling it when I was the most broke would have made more sense, but here we are..)

I had sold many things using Facebook Marketplace when I was purging for the move to California. I had not sold anything so big and niche. Everybody uses TV’s and furniture, but how many people in the area are looking for a used tow dolly?  When I had bought mine through Craigslist, many of the postings were as old as 6 months, so I as prepared for the long haul.

I joined several Buy it/Sell it groups on facebook in the area and pulled up pictures that I had taken for this  back in October. I chose a price based on what I saw others being listed for and thought I would be waiting, but the inquires started immediately. My happiness over things quickly turned into annoyance after a few days. I am not built to be in Sales. I take things too personally and I am bad at confrontations and negotiating a price involved a lot of both for me. The first pet peeve I developed was a hatred for the phrase “What is you bottom dollar?”  I got hit with that as the second question after “Is it still available?” so many times. I have a posted price, if you want to negotiate, then you need to make a counter offer, not ask me to jump right to as low as I will go.  Rude.

I’m a little embarrassed by how many times that happened before I figured out “What is your bottom dollar?” is one of the automatic phrases you can choose in Messenger. Once I realized that, I gave people the benefit of the doubt and started a negotiating, but to a man, they dropped out instead of making a counter offer. GAH!

Then I switched tactics and would ask for an offer instead of putting down a number, but that would get me lowballed. We are talking offers for around 50% or lower from my asking prince. I had seen spindly ones that were over a decade old and rusted being listed for more. Then they would not budge on their offer.  Insulting.

I was fielding af few inquiries and one of the first looked like it was shaping up to be a real offer. Sweet! I wanted nothing more than to be done with this. I started getting everything in order for pick-up when I realized that I could not find the tire straps! I looked everywhere. There was absolutely no reason that they should not have been in my car or in the RV, but I looked everywhere in both,  plus the garage, my bedroom, and even the attic. My dad searched, he sent grandkids to search. Nothing. I don not know what happened. It such a weird thing to steal and not grab anything else in the car or RV. It is still a mystery.  So the straps are soementing you can get two new ones for around $40, so I took $25 off the asking price. The guy dropped out. A Tow dolly that was around $1400 new a year ago and he’s out over $40 of tire straps, the easiest and cheapest part to replace and the one that I would be weariest about buying used anyway.

Ugh. That meant I was still in the game. At about this time, it had been a little over a week. I cam home from work and the power was out and the estimated time of it coming back was 9pm. This is when Rod appeared in my DM’s. Rod put his phone number in his inquiry and asked me to call him.

No. I am selling this online to avoid giving out personal information and the last thing I want to do is give a strange dude a hone number hc can call after the sale. I did not answers right away because I did not know how I wanted to handle it. I figured Iw as getting enough inquires that I could just let this one go and I forgot about it. Next morning, he has sent more messages and they are increasingly passive-agressive. Great, the one guy who won’t move on. I messaged back as I had some time to kill at work waiting for my time to work with a student. I told him about the power outage, so I was worried about saving my phone battery and I explained that I preferred just using Messenger so I can look up any technical questions he has and I doin’t like giving out personal info like my  hone number to strangers.  This was around 8am. When I got off work around 4pm, I looked and Rod has went on a multiple message tantrum. He went off on me not wanting to give my number and that there as no way he was driving all that way without talking first, and this is probably a fake post and he’s going to report me, but also I missed out on a sale and on and on and on. I had thought about replying, “I have a job, so I am not on FB during the day, but I want you to to take this thread and show it to your wife/girlfriend/daughter or any woman and ask her to explain  to you why I do not feel safe giving you my number.” I figured he’s the type who has his head way too far up his butt to get the point, so instead I reported hime to Facebook for harassment.

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My next fun one was Richard (not making up these names, yes the biggest jerks had the phallic euphemisms for names.) I got up to get ready for work. At about 6:30am, I looked at Messenger and he had asked about the dolly at 11pm and then nudged me for an answer again at 6am. Dude, that is a level of impatience I cannot deal with. Sorry I do not offer 24 hour customer service. He did not get a response. I learned engaging does no good.

After a week and a half dealing with this sale, I noticed a pattern I had not seen when I was selling my other stuff: several more impatient buyers, lowball offers, and not willing to work out a price, and just generally being unreasonable. What was the big difference: I was mainly dealing with men this time.  I think I would have gotten a lot less BS if I would have had a guy list it for me or changed my username and profile picture to make it less obvious they there talking to a woman. Wrestling has put me in many a male-dominated situation and I recognize when I am dealing with a guy who cannot tolerate that a woman may “put one over on him” in an area he thinks he should automatically be superior and working out a deal on a trailer falls into that category.

After a week and a half, I found a buyer and yesterday I took it to Greensburg driving  my dad’s truck. There was no way I was risking Old Unreliable messing up my sale by making it look like the dolly lights do not work. It was a mercifully quick process to get rid of the thing and as soon as he had it unhooked form the truck and said we were good, I marked it as sold and got on my way back home. Cursed objects are hard to get rid of, so I was afraid to dawddle and give him time to change his mind.

Thank goodness I should not have to deal with anymore Rods and Richards for now.

Ding Dong, the Dolly’s Gone! As some of you may remember, one of my greatest frustrations and roots of my struggles in California was the tow dolly.